Welcome to Melstone, Montana

Melstone Rangeland

Photo courtesy: MTOT

Melstone began as a Milwaukee Railroad station and was named for Melvin Stone, an Associated Press reporter who was aboard the train with the railroad's president, his daughter, and a friend, all of whom were naming towns along the line. The station was a freight division and promised to be important. Dry land farmers followed the railroad but the surrounding acres proved too dry, and now they are dotted with producing oil wells; while other towns around it are decaying, Melstone has begun a new lease on life. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)